10 cook's first voyage march, 



47 52', and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 8' E. 

 We stood to the southward till half an hour past three 

 in the afternoon ; and then, being in latitude 48 S. 

 and longitude 188 W., and seeing no appearance 

 of land, we tacked and stood to the northward, hav- 

 ing a large swell from the S. W. by W. At noon 

 the next day, our latitude was 46 4<2' S. ; and Cape 

 Saunders bore N. 46 W. distant eisrhtv-six miles. 

 The south-west swell continuing till the 3d, con- 

 firmed our opinion, that there was no land in that 

 quarter. At four in the afternoon, we stood to the 

 westward* with all the sail we could make. In the 

 morning of the 4th, we found the variation to be 

 16 16' E. This day we saw some whales and seals, 

 as we had done several times after our having passed 

 the streight ; but we saw no seal while we were upon 

 the coast of Eahienomauwe. We sounded both in 

 the night and this morning, but had no ground with 

 one hundred and fifty fathom. At noon, we saw Cape 

 Saunders bearing N. J W. ; and our latitude by ob- 

 servation was 46 31' S. At half an hour past one 

 o'clock, we saw land bearing W. by S., which we 

 steered for, and before it was dark were within three 

 or four miles of it : during the whole night we saw 

 fires upon it, and at seven in the morning were within 

 about three leagues of the shore, which appeared to 

 be high, but level. At three o'clock in the after- 

 noon, we saw the land extending from N. E. by N. 

 to N. W. -J- N. j and soon after we discovered some 

 low land, which appeared like an island, bearing 

 S. ^ W. We continued our course to the W. by S., 

 and in two hours we saw high land over the low land, 

 extending to the southward as far as S. W. by S. ; 

 but did not appear to be joined to the land to the 

 northward, so that there is either water, a deep bay, 

 or low land between them. 



At noon on the 6th, we were nearly in the same 

 situation as at noon on the day before : in the after- 

 noon we found the variation, by several azimuths 



